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Post by ruffles on Dec 1, 2013 21:22:37 GMT -5
In case you'd like to know, the Susan Sarandan program is sharing info re season 4.
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Post by meggie on Dec 2, 2013 2:31:42 GMT -5
I really enjoyed tonight's show, and was glad to see they just gave enough to be tantalizing, but not give away any real spoilers. It reminded me of how Guiding Light used to give teasers at the end of the show to make us want to see what happened.
Would you have recognized Mrs. Hughes if they hadn't put her name under the face? What a difference & amazing that she was actually cast as Mrs. Hughes. Edith is hardly plain, and Daisy cleans up pretty well too.
I can't wait until the new season. Downton Abbey makes the regular programing seem so lame and poorly done.
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Post by karenk on Dec 2, 2013 6:31:03 GMT -5
I have that show on my DVR and can't wait to watch it. Also set up a Season Pass for the repeat of Season 3. I have seen photos of the cast in real life and they are all stunning. They are quite brave to be in a hit show sans makeup!
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Post by ruffles on Dec 2, 2013 7:34:44 GMT -5
Michelle Dockery has a bit of an English twang during her interview which is not apparent with Mary in Downton Abbey.
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Post by meggie on Dec 2, 2013 13:07:34 GMT -5
'Mary' would have to lose her twang and have a proper posh accent, but I noticed most of the below stairs people use their real accents.
Does anyone watch Doc Martin? They had a retrospec similar to Downton Abbey's chatting with the cast members and several said they worked with a voice coach to get the right accent. It takes place in Cornwall in the very south tip of England, and has a very specific accent, so the 'locals' have to speak like Cornishmen.
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Post by karenk on Dec 2, 2013 17:48:01 GMT -5
I wonder if the accents sound fake to the people from Cornwall? I have NEVER heard any actor EVER master a Boston accent. It usually makes me cringe. I'm always amazed when an English or Australian actor does an authentic American accent, then you hear them speak in their "true" dialect and it sounds so funny and surprising.
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Post by meggie on Dec 2, 2013 19:01:32 GMT -5
I remember when I realized the actor playing House wasn't an American.
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Post by karenk on Dec 2, 2013 19:23:23 GMT -5
And Hugh Jackman is Australian -- who knew?!
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Post by ruffles on Dec 2, 2013 20:50:47 GMT -5
Quite some time ago Brian Williams discussed some news worthy event on his Nightly News program. When he pronounced the name of the town, he said AmHerst. It sounded so odd to me. No one I know uses the 'H'.
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Post by karenk on Dec 2, 2013 20:56:32 GMT -5
Like "Tooksbury" (Tewksbury), Woostah, and Gloustah. Bellrica (Billerica) and Peebuddy (Peabody). I'm sure there are lots more that I don't notice until a visitor mangles it (Karen F. and Amanda, I'm looking at YOU!). :-D
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Post by meggie on Dec 2, 2013 21:55:44 GMT -5
Montreal is the dead give away here. Americans pronounce it 'Mawntreal". Canadians pronounce it "Muntreal". Then there's Trawna (Toronto)and locals give Vancouver a 'g' as in Vangcouver.
We have an Amherst, Nova Scotia that is pronounced with the'H'.
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Post by karenk on Dec 3, 2013 6:44:56 GMT -5
At least Stanley Park is indeed Stanley Park (put it on your travel wish list, Amanda!).
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Post by Amanda on Dec 9, 2013 11:17:34 GMT -5
There should never be any other way to pronounce Stanley!
I had to laugh at Amherst being included in the pronunciations. I live in Amherst County, and it's always pronounced without the H, except to my friend from Ohio, who throws the H in every time. She also refuses to pronounce Norfolk the way EVERY Virginian does, and pronounces it like "folk" music and not like... well... yeah.
I know how to do Boston, though. Cah keys. See?
(The reality is that, as much as I'd like to be able to, I can't do ANY accent EVER. My friends make endless fun of me if I even dare try. I wish I could do an English one. Levi can go directly into an English accent, back to Texan, and then English again, having lived there for so long. I am envious whenever he does it.)
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Post by ruffles on Dec 9, 2013 12:20:31 GMT -5
I was a customer service phone rep for a camera place for a while and had the opportunity to talk with people all over the USA. My speech is the same as what is heard on television and, IMOP unaccented. One time I was talking with a woman in Texas. She had a mild Southern accent. She asked me where I was from because, she said, of my accent. Southern people often pronounce their 'i' (eye) as 'ah' which, depending on how strong it is, can change the whole dynamic of a word. I can end up doing a double take whenever I hear people, especially on television, pronounce a word such as tour (visit and explore a place) as tore (rip it into pieces) or say pen (you write with it) as pin (has a sharp point). We can become lazy with our speech.
Kudos to Pat Sajak, who gets to listen to people pronounce letters in all sorts of ways.
P.S. Worcester is woo(like wood)-stir!!!! What's so hard about that? *grin*
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